Wanna eat dinner with Gary Oldman? You’d better hurry and get your tickets!

The Seattle International Film Festival announced yesterday that actor Gary Oldman (Dracula, Sid & Nancy, Prick Up Your Ears, The Dark Knight) was coming to town to promote his new film, the latest adaptation of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy on December 11, with a screening AND a special event/dinner with Mr. Oldman AND they just announced today that tickets are selling FAST for both events. Here’s the poo:

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Due to overwhelming demand, SIFF has just added more seats for this special screening and Q&A with Gary Oldman! We also have just a few seats remaining for the exclusive dinner reception with Mr. Oldman (see below) so get yours now before they all sell out!

Join us as SIFF hosts Gary Oldman in person on Sunday, December 11 at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown, with an intimate screening of the acclaimed feature film version of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy at 5:30pm followed by an onstage interview and Q&A session. Tickets for the screening and Q&A are only $25 ($20 SIFF Members).

A limited number of tickets are also available for an exclusive dinner reception with Mr. Oldman. The dinner will take place at the Volterra Drawing Room immediately following the screening event at 8:30pm and will be prepared by award-winning chef, Don Curtiss of Volterra Restaurant in Ballard. Tickets for the dinner are $200, which includes a specially prepared menu, reserved seating to the film screening, conversation and Q&A.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with post-film Q&A: 5:30pm

SIFF Cinema at the Uptown

511 Queen Anne Avenue North

Dinner Reception at Volterra: 8:30pm 

Volterra Drawing Room in Ballard

5411 Ballard Avenue NW

To purchase tickets to the screening, Q&A, and exclusive dinner reception, click here.

So, you’d better hurry if you want to dine with the stars. And, looks amazing and has been getting good “buzz”. Here’s the skinny on the film.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan.

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim’s mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus – as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses.

Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government’s behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla.

The mole’s trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and-Smiley himself.

Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate…

We’d love to go to this, but we know we’d just ask Mr. Oldman too many questions about his older films…we’re big fans of Sid & Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears. We’d also want to know all the dirt about life on the Harry Potter set…and what Mr. Oldman thought about his hairdo for Dracula…